^†Authors contributed equally

Articles

T. S. Kramer, F. K. Wan, S. M. Pugliese, A. A. Atanas, S. Pradhan, A. W. Hiser, L. M. Godinez, J. Luo, E. Bueno, T. Felt, S. W. Flavell, Neural sequences underlying directed turning in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature Neuroscience (2026).

U. Dag, I. Nwabudike, D. Kang, M. A. Gomes, J. Kim, A. A. Atanas, E. Bueno, C. Estrem, S. Pugliese, Z. Wang, E. Towlson, S. W. Flavell, Dissecting the functional organization of the C. elegans serotonergic system at whole-brain scale. Cell 186, 2574-2592.e20 (2023).

R. G. Law, S. Pugliese, H. Shin, D. D. Sliva, S. Lee, S. Neymotin, C. Moore, S. R. Jones, Thalamocortical Mechanisms Regulating the Relationship between Transient Beta Events and Human Tactile Perception. Cerebral Cortex 32, 668–688 (2022).

Preprints

S. N. Baskoylu, A. Kundra, S. Pugliese, J. Kim, K. W. Maher, A. Hiser, F. Meng, C. Estrem, D. Kang, E. Bueno, S. W. Flavell, Deconstructing a behavioral state: parallel neural integrators control distinct features of an aversive behavioral state in C. elegans. bioRxiv (2026).

S. M. Pugliese, G. M. Chou, E. T. T. Abe, D. Turcu, J. K. Lancaster, J. C. Tuthill^†, B. W. Brunton^†, Connectome simulations identify a central pattern generator circuit for fly walking. bioRxiv (2025).